Dear self, next time you read this many books, start the blog post a lot earlier. Otherwise you’re going to sit at the kitchen table on a Saturday afternoon and wondering how the heck you read this many books. (Answer, I still don’t know.)
Top Recommendations
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A grumpy old man who worms his way into your heart? It’s a cute story.
I tend to keep coming across the two same genres: France in WW2 and Dysotopic Heroines. This falls into the latter. I don’t know if I’ll bother with the sequel.
Again, Dysotopic Heroine. I really enjoyed this one though and I’m looking forward to the sequel.
I wasn’t too excited about it, it probably won’t come to the top of any of my recommendations lists.
Normally I’m not as interested in graphic novels, but I love how the comic book pages were interspersed throughout the novel. This YA novel showed some of the ways teenagers deal with grief and handling that gap between high school and college.
His writing is beautiful and powerful and he left me speechless.
I had a hard time putting this one down because I kept wanting to know where it was going next. It tells the fictional story of two girls in their 30s who were kidnapped as children and how that experience effected their lives. After a few odd events, the girls start to find themselves being drawn back to each other.
I was so excited to read this once I heard that Reese Witherspoon was going to turn this into a movie. While I really enjoyed the main character, I just wasn’t into the book.
Everyone was overly obsessed with this book, so of course I had to check it out…it was good, but honestly a little similar to a lot of the World War Two books that take place in France that I’ve read lately (it’s a really weird trend). I did tear up a little towards the end. I’d say give it a chance.
Nice and weird, just like the podcast.
I definitely think that people need to read this book. Maybe not on the metro at 7:30am on their way to work, but yes, this book is something you need to read.
After reading the YA series Carriger wrote, I had to check out this one. While it was a little different, I’m looking forward to continuing the series.
This was explained to me as YA version of Outlander. Yes, there was a girl who time traveled in Scotland….but that was where it ended.
I loved this little collection of quotes. Great for inspiration and putting on your coffee table.
The dysotpic Romeo and Juliet? Will this genre never end?
That was kind of weird. Nope.
An interesting read, but I think that reading it in one sitting took the dramatizing out of it.
That had a disappointing ending and kind of made me wonder why I started it in the first place.
Liane Moriarty never disappoints.
It took me a few minutes to remember the plot of this book honestly, but once I refreshed my memory, I remembered how much I enjoyed it.
Men are the worst.
I loved this book. A little heart breaking, but also a little wonderful.
I joined The College Prepster’s new book club and this was the first read! Sadly, myself and the other members of the group were a little disappointed by this one. It had a promising plot, but then fell flat. Based on historical, this fictional novel was a look at a couple’s engagement in England and how Empress Sisi came between the two. While this read was disappointing, I am looking forward to the next book in the book club.
After reading The Fortune Hunter, I wanted to learn a little more about Empress Sisi (the “other woman” in The Fortune Hunter). This book was a pretty deep historical fiction guide into her post getting married life. It was interestin to see how this book took a much more sympathetic approach to Sisi’s life as opposed to The Fortune Hunter. Honestly thouh, I don’t know how much someone would be interested in reading if if you don’t like historical fiction or want to read more about Empress Sisi.
I wasn’t as inspired by this as I wanted to be, but I think I may have to go back and read it again (as opposed to listening to it on audiobook).
I don’t know what’s more terrifying about this book, that the parents acted this way in this fictional novel or that there are parents that still do this. This novel made me repeatedly uncomfortable, but I had to finish reading it to make sure everything turned out okay.
Man, girls are the worst, aren’t they?
Man, girls in the 1950s are the worst, aren’t they? Actually, I did like this one a little more than the last, especially since it kept referencing back to the filming of Gone By the Wind. After that though, there wasn’t much there for me.
An apocolypse comes along and only certain people get “saved.” Sadly, Vivian is not one of them…and she thinks that even though her parents have disappeared, they might not actually be gone either. Weird, a little “anti-the man.”
I loved this book and the parallel stories. I would highly suggest this book to anyone who’s looking for something engaging to read.
This is going to sound a little weird, but this book gave me a whole new appreciation for Drew Barrymore. I didn’t know that much about her life and this book taught me a lot of things I didn’t know about her.
Yes, read this. The end.
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